elephants dream
Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.
The short film was created by the Orange Open Movie Project studio in Amsterdam during 2005/2006, bringing together a diverse team of artists and developers from all over the world. More about the project…
Going @media
Me and Missy Lund are heading off to the UK’s biggest and best web conference, @media tonight. Whilst the workload at the office is all guns with current projects, I’m swaying on the edge of not being able to go (how wrong would that be) but I just can’t wait!
To get away, spend some time thinking in a relaxed and buffed up manner on what we’re trying to do with ourselves. The web. It’s standards. It’s quality. To learn some stuff, meet some ingenious people and fingers crossed, get inspired as truth be told, I’m freakin’ done in.
I’m glad the programme takes into account the football. Will there be a screen at the party?!!
CSS World Awards
My recent redesign of Kettering Borough Council’s website has the honour of being nominated for the first ever CSS World Awards. No honestly!
The original Kettering website was launched in June 2005 and was, to our knowledge, the very first UK local authority site to completely use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for layout and presentation.
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